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Device for Attaching Handles" to White Wash Brushes Patented Oct. 17,1865.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

w. B. BURTNETT, on NEW YORK, AND JAMES P. McINTOSH, or HIGHLAND MILLS,N. Y.

DEVICE FOR ATTACHING HANDLES T0 WHlTEWASH-BRUSHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 50,449, dated October17, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, 7. B. BURTNETT, of the city and county of New York,State of New York, and JAMEs P. MOINTOSH, of Highland Mills, Orangecounty, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Mode ofAttaching Handles to Whitewash-Brushes; and we do hereby declare thatthefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, makinga part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing theimproved mode of attaching the handle of a brush to its stock. Fig. 2 isa front view of the brush-stock and adjustable strap, and a sectionalview through the handle thereof. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional viewthrough the brush-stock and ferrule for the handle.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the threefigures.

This invention consists in providing for adjusting the brush atany anglewhich is oblique to the line of the handle by means of a pivotedrounded, as shown clearlyin Figs. 1 and 2, for

the purpose of admitting of the required adjustments of aclamping-strap, b. This strap 1) is bent in the form of the letter U, soas to embrace the back of the brush-stock, to which its ends are pivotedby means of a clampingscrew, 0, as shown in Fig. 3.

The clamp-screw has a thumb-button on one end and a male screw on theother end. It also has an enlarged shoulder, 0, formed on it near itsbutton. The stem ofthis screw passesloosely through one end of thestrap 1) and through the brush-stock a, and its end is tapped into theopposite end oft-he strap b, so that by tightenin g the screw the strapwill be drawn tightly and secured rigidly to the brush-stock, and byloosening the screw the strap will be allowed to move about its pivot.

The handle B of the brush has a metal ferrule suitably secured on oneend, as shown in the drawings, and this ferrule O has a femalescrew-socket in one end for receiving a male screw, 6, which is formedon a slide, g, that works in a slot, g, in the head of the strap 1). Thescrew 0 is passed from the inside of the strap 1) outward, and theferrule receives it, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, so that by screwing theend of the ferrule tightly against the strap a rigid connection of thehandle with the brushstock is effected.

By unscrewing the ferrule partially the brush-stock can be adjusted andfixed at any desired angle at right angles 'to the plane of the brush,limited only by the length of the slot g.

We do not confine our invention to the mode herein described, andrepresented in the drawings, for attaching the handle of awhitewashbrush to the adjustable strap, as various attachments can beemployed. For instance, a number of screw-sockets may be tapped throughthe strap b instead of the slot 9, and a male screw formed on the end ofthe ferrule, which will enter one or the other of these sockets,according to the angle at which it is desired to have the brush.

The great advantage of the pivoted strap 1) is, that we are enabled todispense with the necessity of adjusting the handle of the brush in twodirections upon the strap, as described in our former specificationsunder our patents.

It will be seen that the application of our invention to a brush-stockinvolves the necessity of a slight change in the form of these stocks,our stocks being constructed with a rounded central projection fromtheir backs for supporting the straps b and allowing these straps to beset at different angles with respect to the lengths of said stocks.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of a pivoted adjustable strap, 1), which is adaptedfor receiving the brush-handle, with abrush-stock, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination of an adjustable strap, 1), having an adjustablehandle applied to it, with a brush-stock, substantially as described.

W. B. BURTNETT. J. P. MOINTOSH.

\Nitnesses:

' D. A. BURTNETT,

BENJN. J. Roenns.

